Outdumb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To surpass in dumbness; to be dumber than. transitive
"Borowitz grabs readers by the ear and walks them through the stages of ignorance, […] to celebration (starring Donald J. Trump and, as Borowitz puts it, “wannabes like Ted Cruz and Ron DeSantis — who, despite being graduates of our nation’s finest universities, strenuously try to outdumb him).”"
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More examples"Borowitz grabs readers by the ear and walks them through the stages of ignorance, […] to celebration (starring Donald J. Trump and, as Borowitz puts it, “wannabes like Ted Cruz and Ron DeSantis — who, despite being graduates of our nation’s finest universities, strenuously try to outdumb him).”"
Etymology
From out- + dumb, by analogy with outsmart.
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